Beast World: Rise to Power with the Offspring System

Chapter 171 170: Giving the Children a Name

Lena entered the hall.

Sally said to the maid, "Go prepare some breakfast."

"No need, I've had my meal before coming here," Lena replied.

"Join me, I'm still hungry."

"All right then."

"Hey, I saw you getting dragged away by Ethan last night. Anything happen afterward?"

"Tasted the Angel set meal again."

"Heh, that's pretty good."

"Cough, I'm thinking of going back to Fox Hole today. You be careful with everything here on your own. I think that Lin Xuexue... no, Cassie, isn't someone to be taken lightly."

Sally responded, "That's an understatement. She even has a younger aunt who is Frans' blood aunt. She wanted to lay a hand on me last night. But Frans issued an order forbidding her from entering the Holy Palace as she pleases from now on."

"Ah?" Lena frowned, "Then... maybe I should stay with you a bit longer to protect you until you have the baby?"

As she spoke, she drew out her sword again.

Sally laughed, "No need, I'm safe." As long as Xiaomei was fine, no freak or monster could harm her.

"Still, if you want to stay a few more days, that's fine too. I need to prepare for the mating ceremony with Frans, and you can be my bridesmaid," Sally said with a smile.

Lena looked at her with surprise, "Really?"

Sally nodded and then touched her belly, "I need to give the children a legitimate status. If we were on another continent, like the one I came from, Lichuan Continent 9908, having one's own children is considered a great fortune. Even if they're not one's own, being able to raise one is also very good. But here, with their hierarchies, distinction of classes, children born out of wedlock - if they're common folk it doesn't matter, but for these royal and noble families, lineage is very important."

"In Fox Hole, we don't have so many rules. If it weren't for the Holy War being mandatory, I wouldn't have come to compete for the title of Holy Mother. Especially seeing you now, it doesn't seem all that joyful."

"Having a pair of Angel babies isn't too bad either."

"Mhm."

"These are my ninth and tenth children," Sally touched her belly, "I wonder if Xiaoba has hatched? What it looks like."

"The eighth one was from an egg, just one?"

"Yeah."

"My first clutch had twenty-three!" Lena talked about her own children, "But apart from the first one, whose name I remember, I can't recall the others'. Her name is Nina Lano."

"That's a lovely name." Sally remembered the names of all her children, and their images were clearly etched in her memory.

Sally caressed the Space Ring on her ring finger and took out an amulet.

It read, "Zong Silu, Zong Yunhui (Putao) — Longing for your return!"

She quickly put it away.

Holding back the tears welling up in her eyes.

Breakfast was served.

Sally and Lena ended their chat about the children.

After they finished breakfast, some Court Tailors came to take Sally's measurements, preparing the Holy Empress gown she would wear during the mating ceremony.

Upon inquiring, Sally learned that she would have to wear a total of ten different outfits on that day alone. Including alternates, there would be at least twenty.

Lena also had a few new outfits made on the side.

...

"I feel like I agreed to this a bit too rashly," Sally remarked as she glanced at the mating ceremony procedures booklet given to her by the Court Ritual Officer, before tossing it to Lena.

Lena, munching on a fruit and with her feet up, cheerfully took the booklet, glanced at it, and then flipped it back at Sally, "I feel the same, being a bridesmaid is no easy job, huh."

Frans led Ethan to the garden entrance, where they heard Sally complaining about the trouble of pairing up, and quickly pulled Ethan away again.

"Let's go later."

"What's wrong?" Ethan glanced back at Lena, who he didn't really want to leave, and kept looking back.

"It was not easy to get her to agree to the mating."

"Hmm."

"She seems to be in a bad mood right now. If I go over there at this moment and she gets agitated and refuses to mate..."

Ethan was speechless, "...Frans, when did you become so cautious? Weren't you all carefree and unconcerned with details before?"

"You don't understand how important she is to me." After saying that, Frans seemed to remember something as he looked at Ethan, because he had said that same line once...

Ethan slapped him on the shoulder, "Come on, let's go have a drink at my place."

"Alright," Frans nodded.

When they arrived at Little Tanuki's Private Kitchen, there was a closed-for-now sign hanging at the entrance, and the place was eerily quiet.

Ethan mixed a drink for Frans, "So Lena is not leaving?"

"Not for now. She's Yanyan's bridesmaid for the mating ceremony."

"If you don't mind that I'm a widower, I can be your best man."

"I mind," Frans instantly rejected.

"I've got some not-so-good news for you. I heard from Yanyan that lately Lena has been getting close to Jack. You've got competition now."

"..." Ethan's hand, holding the glass, paused, "Hm, it's been a long time since I've had a fight. How about we go play at the Hundred Beasts Tower tonight?"

"To watch you bully others? No thanks. I'm going to conceive a pair of pure, unblemished Angels and spend the night with Yanyan."

"You... You're just like I was back then. Good luck."

"You too."

...

Sally, in fact, saw Frans and Ethan from the System Map and heard their conversation.

Frans was actually a bit too nervous about her. That state of fretting and worrying was something she had experienced before, and she didn't want him to feel that way. She hoped that after having children, his parental instincts as a Father Beast would cause him to focus all his attention on the kids.

"Lena, Ethan's feelings for you might not be what you think. He seems to have gotten over his ex-wife."

Lena nodded, "I know, he's told me. It's just, if you had to choose between the Fox Hole and him, what would you pick?"

"Pretend I didn't say anything." Sally would of course choose the Fox Hole.

Remembering something, Lena's eyes lit up, "How about going to the Hundred Beasts Tower tonight together? Jack has a match, and he invited me to watch."

Sally thought about the last time they went to watch the matches at the Hundred Beasts Tower, "Lena, on your Continent at the Holy War, is there a Hundred Beasts Tower?"

"No," Lena replied. "There is an Arena and a labyrinth. Many squads have perished in the Arena and the labyrinth. In the end, usually only two or three squads manage to make it through. Like Tong Nanxi and me, we were the only two surviving squads, so we didn't have to fight for a spot."

"On my side, it's mostly about the elimination between squads."

"Either way, death awaits. Ah! So, do you want to go see it tonight?"

"No, Frans probably won't let me go. The thought of him watching over me for a whole year exhausts me."

"A year isn't that long; it will pass quickly. At first, I thought you might have to carry a child for a hundred and eighty years."

"Spare me, please. By the old standards, I would have already given birth by now."

"Sally, one of your other Beast Husbands, the one with purple eyes, which Beast Clan is he from?"

Hearing Lena mention Zi Qi, Sally asked, "What about him?"

"Hehe, during the third phase, I approached him and greeted him."